Plant biologists argue that plants are definitively not conscious, in a paper published in Trends in Plant Science on July 3. They are pushing back against researchers who study plant neurobiology and ...

Deb Manley—a volunteer walking the rugged backcountry of Big Bend National Park after a recent rain—noticed tiny, strange ...

When Manley uploaded photos to the community science app iNaturalist, botanists got excited. "That kind of caused an uproar — ...

A new plant species discovered at Big Bend National Park last year has a name. It's affectionately known as the "wooly devil.

The Wooly Devil is what botanists call a "belly plant"-so tiny that it can only be properly observed while lying on the ...

Deb Manley, the volunteer, snapped pictures of the plant and uploaded them to the app iNaturalists, where botanists from around the globe chimed in to help identify the mysterious plant.